Paris, 1940. The City of Light has fallen under German Occupation. Among patriotic Parisians, the pursuit of art, culture, and jazz have become bold acts of defiance. So has forbidden romance for talented and spirited Jewish teenager Annette Zelman and dashing young Catholic poet Jean Jausion. Despite their devout families' vehement opposition, the young couple finds acceptance at the famed Café de Flore, whose habitues include Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Pablo Picasso, Django Reinhardt, and other luminaries of the Latin Quarter's creative world.
For a time, Annette and Jean feel they have eluded the brute might of the relentless Nazis—and more immediately, their parents' threats and demands. But as restrictions on the Jewish community escalate to arrests and deportations, the maleficent forces gathering around the young lovers set them on divergent and tragically inevitable paths.
Drawn from never-before-published family letters and other treasures, as well as archival sources and exclusive interviews, Star-Crossed offers us precious insight into the Holocaust and the lives French people bravely led under the Hitler regime. This breathtaking true story of beauty, art, liberation, and the transformative power of love resonates with an intimate story of undying devotion, seen through the prism of history.
Grace
2026-06-04
A fantastic book, by author Heather Dune Macadam & Simon Worrall, This book goes well together with another book; "999" written by Heather Dune Macadam. Both books pays great respect for the individual & show great knowledge about what the Nazi- Germany’s aims were & the severe crimes against humanity that the Nazis willingly carried out against everyone they deemed undesirable. It’s a well crafted book,, with many detail, a clear established clear timeline, which makes it easy to navigate through the book. "This is an incredible impactful, painful & terrifying witness account from a period of our history that still holds lots of trauma around the world. It’s now 2026, & we live in a world that’s really shattered, with ongoing wars and no clear vision between countries who just years earlier were allied, — and it’s safe to assume that the global order that was established after the Cold War is no longer there anymore. We’re experiencing a very rude awakening & no one holds the answer to how we should solve all the many “fires” that are popping up around the world, all we can do is to learn more about our shared history, and make sure we don’t repeat it, because sadly the history has a tendency to repeat itself (us humans tend to repeat our history) by knowing & understanding the history is fundamental for both the Now/present and for how the future will turn out. Respectfully, Grace
Grace
2025-01-05
A fantastic book, by author Heather Dune Macadam and Simon Worrall! This book ties well together with the nonfiction book lcalled “999” also written by one of the same author, namely Heather Dune Macadam's who seemingly has a “calling” for writing books about extraordinary sensitive topics and have the ability to write with compassion empathy & she’s able to give all individuals in the book the honor all of the persons she writes about, her meticulously well crafted & detailed descriptions of each girl, & background is invaluable. Her willingness to take the time to establish f.ex. dates, communication btw the girls, timeline etc. is so important & greatly appreciated. “999” is a book that’s incredible impactful, painful & terrifying, yet such an important piece of the past history that’s been overlooked for the past 6-7 decades since the Holocaust. These two books ties are inevitable and are worth reading/listening to! The research is so powerful and well done and these two books should serve as mandatory reading for every pupil before they leave High-school! These two books present such a profound and a valuable lesson to a deeper understanding of what it’ was like to be sent to a concentration camp and/or a extermination camps especially for women, BARLEY women due to most of these early transports were as mentioned transports of teenage girls who were among the age of 14-18 years old when they and their families were lured to send their teenage daughters to work 3 months for the country……. I deeply believe and hope these books will make it into the pupils in high school! We all need to learn about our history, to understand our present and future! These books gives a deep insight to how inhumane the practice, and how degrading the Nazis method’s were and how many collaborators the Nazis managed to create no matter what country they occupied! It’s factual that the Nazis didn’t value human life at all!, but it’s not as factual to remember occupied countries regimes, and/or people in general who in countries like (remember please that the borders in 1939-1945 are very different to those of today, so when I mention a country I do not mean to point finger! My aim is to show that any human obviously is capable to change his/hers mind on what to me seems like changing moral compass on a sickening whim!) Anyway all over the world people who before the Nazis were as people are most suddenly changed their moral compasses, in Poland/France/ Denmark/Norway people were willing to assist the Nazis & acting as collaborator’s to them and sell out their own country & countrymen whilst in the middle of a burning war & occupation of their own homeland! Respectfully, Grace
Gwynedd
2024-08-05
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